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- Viruses that infect insects such as baculoviruses, also enter the hemocoel of the insect from the gut through the action of virus coat proteins. Circulatively transmitted plant viruses enter the hemocoel (body cavity) of the insect vector. Viruses that infect insects also enter the hemocoel. In all cases, they have evolved specialized proteins to ensure their survival in the vector. This invention intends to exploit these viral proteins, and the genes encoding them, for presentation and delivery of toxins or other proteins to the vector or related organism.
- this invention can be used to genetically engineer pest-resistant plants, or to construct biopesticides.
- Plant viruses can be transmitted in a circulative or noncirculative fashion.
- circulative transmission broadly as "any plant virus that must be actively transported across vector membranes and survive inside the vector to be transmitted" (Gray, S.M. [1996] Trends in Microbiology 4:259-264). By this definition, even some fungi can be considered circulatively transmitting vectors.
- viruses are understood in the art as classifiable within groups which share common features of genetics, structure and the like.
- virus groups that are transported across insect vector membranes include: tospoviruses, plant reoviruses, plant rhabdoviruses, tenuiviruses, marafiviruses, luteoviruses, geminiviruses, enamoviruses, tymoviruses, como viruses, and sobemoviruses (ibid: Gergerich, R.C. and Scott, H.A. [1991] Advances in Disease Vector Research. Harris, K.F., ed., pp. 114, Springer- Verlag).
- the fungally transmitted viruses include bymoviruses and furoviruses (op cit. ; Jianping et al. [1991] Annals of Applied Biology 118:615-622). This invention encompasses all such viruses and their vectors and non- vectors which can acquire the virus.
- luteovirus is used herein to encompass all viruses of the family Luteoviridae, including three major genera: Luteovirus, Polerovirus and Enamovirus.
- the RPV strain of Barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) described in examples herein, is also termed “cereal yellow dwarf virus - RPV” and classified in the genera Polerovirus, as the result of a recent change in nomenclature. However, since the majority of relevant art refers to BYDV, that nomenclature is retained herein.
- Noncirculatively transmitted viruses "associate with the cuticular lining of the insect mouthparts or foregut and are released as the insect expels digestive secretions into the plant when it begins to feed. These viruses are not actively transported across vector-cell membranes, nor are they carried internally. The external cuticular lining of insects (and nematodes) extends well into the mouthparts and foregut, but is shed when the animal molts. " (Gray, S.M. [1996] Trends in Microbiology 4:259-264). Although the application herein exemplifies the use of plant virus proteins to deliver toxins to the hemocoel, noncirculatively transmitted viruses may be used similarly to present toxins to the surfaces of the gut or mouthparts.
- any virus which can enter the hemocoel of an insect from the gut through the action of viral protein can be employed, as described, to deliver a toxin to the insect.
- the invention is exemplified herein by luteoviruses and their aphid vectors. They have the best-characterized circulatively-transmitted virus-vector interactions. However, the same principles can be applied for any virus-vector interaction and their exploitation to develop insect-resistant plants is included in this invention.
- Luteoviruses can be transmitted only by aphids.
- the transmission mechanism is persistent and circulative.
- the virus enters the body cavity (hemocoel) of the aphid where it can remain for the life of the aphid.
- the aphid acquires virus by feeding on an infected plant.
- the virus particles (virions) are transported from the aphid hindgut into the hemocoel by a presumed receptor-mediated process across the hindgut epithelial cells. From the hemocoel, the virus is then transported across two more membrane barriers into the accessory salivary gland (ASG) (Gildow, F.E. et al. [1993] Phytopathology 83: 1293-1302; Power, A.G. et al.
- the genome of luteoviruses consists of a single, positive sense, 5.7 kb RNA.
- the proteins needed for virus particles, aphid transmission, and virus movement within the plant all are expressed from a subgenomic RNA (sgRNAl) that is generated during virus infection but is not encapsidated in the virion (Fig. 3) (Miller, W.A. et al. [1997] Plant Disease 81:700- 710).
- the luteovirus virion contains 180 copies of the coat protein (CP). About 5-10% of the CP subunits contain a long carboxy-terminal extension that protrudes from the virion (Filichkin, S.A. et al. [1994] Virology 205:290-299).
- the middle of the RTD (around amino acid 242) contains a labile peptide bond causing the C-terminal half to be cleaved in purified virus preparations (Filichkin et al. [1994] supra). Because purified virions are readily aphid transmitted, the C-terminal portion is unnecessary for aphid transmission.
- the N-te ⁇ ninal half of the RTD is required for aphid transmission (from aphid to plant) (Brault, J. et al. [1995] EMBO J. 14:650-659; van den Heuvel, J.F.J.M. et al. [1997] J. Virol. 71:7258-7265), but not for virion assembly or transport across the hindgut membrane into the hemocoel (Chay, CA. et al. [1996] Virology 219:57-65).
- the major CP itself is also required for transmission because intact virions are necessary to protect the viral RNA.
- the N-terminal half of RTD is bound by an abundant protein called symbionin which is produced by endosymbiotic bacteria (van den).
- proximal RT element a sequence just 3 ' of the CP ORF stop codon (proximal RT element) and a sequence located, surprisingly, 700-750 bases further downstream (distal RT element) are necessary for readthrough of the CP ORF stop codon during translation of sgRNAl (Brown, CM. et al. [1996] supra) (Fig. 3).
- the distal RT element still facilitates readthrough even after insertion of a reporter gene between it and the proximal element, causing the distal RT element to be located in the 3' untranslated region (UTR) 2 kb downstream from the CP stop codon (Brown, CM. et al. [1996] supra).
- Transgenic tobacco engineered to express a lectin was shown to confer protection against aphids (Hilder, V.A. et al. [1995] Transgenic Res. 4:18-25), and numerous transgenic plants have been produced that resist aphid-transmitted viruses by the use of virus-derived transgenes (Miller, W.A. et al. [1997] supra; Anon [1995] Genetic Engineering News 15:1; Wilson,
- baculoviruses which are insect specific viruses. Some of these viruses have been used to deliver a variety of insect- specific toxins that are active in the hemocoel but not in the gut of the insect. For example, recombinant baculoviruses have been developed for control of lepidopteran (moth) pest species
- transgenically expressed, nonreplicating, plant viral structural proteins deliver insecticidal proteins or peptides into the hemolymph of aphids.
- the toxin AalT that is derived from the venom of the North African scorpion
- Androctonus australis Hector has a unique specificity for the nervous system of insects and some other arthropods such as crustaceans (Zlotkin, E. [1986] in Neuropharmacology and pesticide action. Chicester: Horwood; DeDianous S, et al. [1987] Toxicon 25:411-417).
- AalT has no mammalian toxicity. Its strict selectivity for insects has been documented by toxicity assays, electrophysiological studies and binding assays (Zlotkin [1986] supra). AalT is toxic to all insect species tested.
- AalT has a molecular weight of only 8 kDa and has four disulfide bridges giving a highly organized conformation (Darbon, H. et al. [1982] Int. J. Peptide Protein Res. 20:320-332). AalT does not penetrate the lipophilic cuticle of insects (DeDianous, S. et al. [1988] Pestic. Sci. 23:35-40). To exploit this toxin for insect pest control purposes, various baculoviruses have been engineered to express AalT (Gershburg, E. et al. [1998] supra; Jarvis, D.L.
- AalT is even more toxic to nonlepidopteran species.
- baculoviruses do not infect aphids, they cannot be used for aphid control without modification.
- the site of action of the toxin is the nerves, transgenic plants expressing AalT alone would not be aphid resistant because ingested toxin would pass through the insect.
- the invention involves combining a peptide toxin effective against insects, including but not limited to thrips, leaf hoppers, and beetles, with a transport peptide capable of facilitating transfer of the peptide toxin from the gut of an insect to the hemocoel.
- the combination can be effected by a fusion of genetic material encoding the peptide toxin and the transport peptide, such that expression of the genetic material fusion results in synthesis of a fusion protein combining the functions of both the toxin and the transport protein.
- the invention is effective in control of such sucking insects as aphids, whiteflies and the like, and other vectors that transmit viruses in a circulative manner.
- a variety of transport peptides can be employed, including a coat protein, or transport function domain thereof, of a plant virus for which the sucking insect is a vector in the transmission of the virus from plant to plant.
- coat proteins and readthrough domains of certain aphid-transmitted luteoviruses provide transport function in the case of aphids
- coat-proteins of whitefly-transmitted gemini viruses provide transport function in the case of whiteflies.
- Any peptide having a toxic effect when present in the circulatory system of a target insect can, in principle, be incorporated into a toxic fusion protein.
- Virus proteins that cross the gut barrier of an insect or other pest organism can be exploited for direct delivery of a variety of toxic agents which are active only in the body cavity of that organism.
- the requirements for these toxic agents include that (1) the agent should be specific for the targeted pest without mammalian toxicity; (2) the agent should be active at low levels; (3) the agent should have a rapid effect on the host.
- These toxic agents include both toxins that act on the nervous system of insects , and physiological effectors which disrupt regulation of homeostasis in the insect, resulting in feeding inhibition and/or death.
- frugiperda (Flipsen et al., of virus egt gene Malpighian 1995a; Flipsen et al., removes virus tubules 1995b; O'Reilly and inactivation of Miller, 1991) ecdysteroids a Larvae injected with virus
- pyrethroid insecticide which targets the sodium channels
- carbamate insecticide which targets acetylcholinesterase in the nervous system
- act synergistically with at least one of the insect specific neurotoxins McCuthen B.F., [1997] J. Ec. Entomol. 901171-1180.
- certain chemical insecticides applied at very low doses can also enhance the efficacy of the virus coat protein delivery system when such neurotoxins are used.
- the invention allows the person or ordinary skill in the art to construct a fusion protein combining a transport peptide and an insect-toxic peptide for control of a large range of insects that damage a large variety of plants of commercial importance.
- Such plants include, but are not limited to, wheat, barley, oats, rice, corn (especially maize streak virus in Africa and sweet corn in the US) potato, sugar beet, soybean, tomato, citrus (orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit), Rosaceae (rose), fruit trees (plum, apple, cherry, peach, pear), lettuce, french bean, sugar cane, papaya, squash, cucurbits, banana, cassava, sweet potato, grape, all ornamentals and the like, including other members of the plant families to which the foregoing plants belong.
- the family Aleyrodidae (whiteflies), family order Homoptera, including the Aphidae (aphids), family phylloxeridae (the phylloxera pests of grape), the superfamily Fulgoroidae (plant hoppers, the family cicadellidae (leaf hoppers), the Order Thysanoptera (thrips), and the Order Coleoptera, especially the family Chrysomilidae (leaf beetles) and the Genus Diabrotica
- the fusion protein can be delivered to the target insect by any of a variety of ways. However, a preferred method is to deliver the fusion protein during the natural feeding activity of the insect, from the plant itself.
- the invention therefore includes plant-expressible gene constructs which can be used to transform a plant such that the plant expresses the fusion protein in its sap or tissues where insect feeding occurs. Transgenic plants, capable of expressing a transport peptide-toxin peptide fusion protein are thereby rendered resistant to the damage caused by insects and the diseases transmitted by them.
- the plant expressible gene constructs can be expressed either constitutively, or in an inducible manner, such as during a desired developmental stage, in a desired tissue, at a desired time or under desired environmental conditions. Constructs can be expressed from stably integrated transgenes or via transient vectors. Modified plant viruses can also be used as a spray on the surface of the crop plant, where ingestion by the target insect introduces the toxic protein to the insect gut.
- the invention herein is described by reference to the combination of a luteovirus coat protein and a scorpion toxin, for aphid control. However, it will be understood that other embodiments and variations , according to the principles taught herein and combined with those known in the art, can be made as part of the present invention.
- the invention therefore includes delivery of any protein to the hemocoel of any arthropod or other organism (nemotode) that takes up and transmits viruses in a circulative or non-circulative fashion.
- Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic view of an aphid in saggital section feeding upon a plant, showing in general the route of transmission of a luteovirus.
- Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic view of the process of receptor-mediated endocytosis of a luteovirus from the hindgut to the aphid hemocoel.
- Fig. 3 is a diagram of the genome organization of BYDV-PAV.
- Fig. 4 is a diagram of different CP-RTD-AalT fusions described herein.
- Fig. 5 shows the effect of wildtype and AalT-expressing virus on aphid mortality.
- Fig. 6 illustrates Northern blot hybridization showing accumulation of wildtype and AalT-expressing viral RNAs in oat protoplasts.
- Fig. 6A shows ethidium bromide stained gel showing positions of ribosomal RNA.
- Fig. 6B shows positions of RNA probed with 32 P- labeled BYDV-specific antisense RNA.
- peptide is used to refer to any poly-amino acid, without limitation as to size or molecular weight.
- peptide includes such terms of common usage in the art as “oligo-peptide,” “polypeptide” and “protein. "
- transport peptide is herein defined as that peptide segment which is necessary for transport of a circulatively-transmitted virus from the gut to the hemocoel of an insect.
- a transport peptide can include all, or a portion of, a virus coat protein or other virus protein and can also include all or part of a readthrough domain. That portion of a coat protein or other virus protein which constitutes a transport peptide is termed a component of the coat or other protein. It will be understood in the art that a specific interaction exists between the transport peptide of a virus and the insect host of the virus.
- a peptide intended to serve as a transport peptide for a given insect species is obtained from a circulatively transmitted virus that is known to infect that insect, as would be understood in the art.
- insect-toxic peptide refers to any peptide which is toxic to an insect when delivered to the appropriate site of action of the insect.
- the present invention is directed to toxic peptides which exert their effect when delivered to the hemocoel of the insect. Examples of known insect-toxic peptides are given in Table I; however, the number of such peptides that become known is increasing, and any such peptide can be employed in the present invention.
- Readthrough domain is the term used to denote a DNA coding segment, or open reading frame which is situated downstream of a stop codon, in the direction of translation, and whose presence results in synthesis of a fusion protein composed of amino acids encoded upstream of the stop codon and amino acids encoded downstream of the stop codon.
- the presence of a RTD is indicated by an increased frequency of synthesis of a protein having amino acids encoded by the ORF downstream of the stop codon (readthrough) compared to the frequency of synthesis where the RTD is not present.
- the presence of the RTD results in a portion of viral coat proteins having a C-te ⁇ r-inal peptide extension.
- the RTD provides a convenient means for constructing a fusion protein that includes an insect-toxic peptide.
- the peptide encoded by the RTD of BYDV is not necessary for function as a transport protein, although it may play a role in transport function.
- a segment of coding DNA is "expressed” in vivo or in vitro, if the DNA is transcribed or if the transcription product is translated. Expression can result in synthesis of an mR A or of a protein encoded by the coding DNA.
- Associated with/operatively linked refer to nucleic acid sequences that are related physically or functionally.
- a promoter or regulatory DNA sequence is said to be “associated with” a DNA sequence that codes for an RNA or a protein if the two sequences are operatively linked, or situated such that the regulator DNA sequence will affect the expression level of the coding or structural DNA sequence.
- a “chimeric gene” is a recombinant nucleic acid sequence in which a promoter or regulatory nucleic acid sequence is operatively linked to, or associated with, a nucleic acid sequence that codes for an mRNA or which is expressed as a protein, such that the regulator nucleic acid sequence is able to regulate transcription or expression of the associated nucleic acid sequence.
- the regulator nucleic acid sequence of the chimeric gene is not normally operatively linked to the associated nucleic acid sequence as found in nature.
- a chimeric gene having operatively linked coding and expression control segments is also referred to herein as an "expression cassette.
- To "control” insects means to inhibit, through a toxic effect, the ability of insect pests to survive, grow, feed, and/or reproduce, or to limit insect-related damage or loss in crop plants, to "control” insects may or may not mean killing the insects, although it preferably means killing the insects.
- a toxin means that the toxin comes in contact with an insect, resulting in toxic effect and control of the insect.
- the toxin can be delivered in many recognized ways, e.g., orally by ingestion by the insect or by contact with the insect via transgenic plant expression, formulated protein compositions(s), sprayable protein composition(s), a bait matrix, or any other art-recognized toxin delivery system.
- a "plant” is any plant at any stage of development, particularly a seed plant.
- a "plant cell” is a structural and physiological unit of a plant, comprising a protoplast and a cell wall.
- the plant cell may be in form of an isolated single cell or a cultured cell, or as a part of higher organized unit such as, for example, plant tissue, a plant organ, or a whole plant.
- Plant tissue as used herein means a group of plant cells organized into a structural and functional unit. Any tissue of a plant in plants or in culture is included. This term includes, but is not limited to, whole plants, plant organs, plant seeds, tissue culture and any groups of plant cells organized into structural and/or functional units. The use of this term in conjunction with, or in the absence of, any specific type of plant tissue as listed above or otherwise embraced by this definition is not intended to be exclusive of any other type of plant tissue.
- a “promoter” is an untranslated DNA sequence upstream of the coding region that contains the binding site for RNA polymerase II and initiates transcription of the DNA.
- the promoter region may also include other elements that act as regulators of gene expression.
- a “protoplast” is an isolated plant cell without a cell wall or with only part of the cell wall.
- Regulatory elements refer to sequences involved in controlling the expression of a nucleotide sequence. Regulatory elements comprise a promoter operably linked to the nucleotide sequence of interest and termination signals. They also typically encompass sequences required for proper translation of the nucleotide sequence.
- Transformed/transgenic/recombinant refer to a host organism such as a bacterium or a plant into which a heterologous nucleic acid molecule has been introduced.
- the nucleic acid molecule can be stably integrated into the genome of the host or the nucleic acid molecule can be present as an extrachromosomal molecule. Such an extrachromosomal molecule can be auto-replicating.
- Transformed cells, tissues, or plants are understood to encompass not only the end product of a transformation process, but also transgenic progeny thereof.
- a "non- transformed,” “non-transgenic,” or “non-recombinant" host refers to a wild-type organism, e.g. a bacterium or plant, which does not contain the heterologous nucleic acid molecule.
- luteovirus CP and CP-RTD's are taken up efficiently into the hemocoel, they make ideal vehicles for transporting proteins that are translationally fused to them.
- Fig. 1 is useful to visualize the circulative pathway of luteovirus transmission (from Chay et al., [1996] Virol. 219:57-65).
- Fig. 2 is a diagram of the proposed mechanism of receptor-mediated endocytosis of luteoviruses from the hindgut into the aphid hemocoel (from Gray, [1996] Trends Microbiol. 4:259-264).
- the virus binds to specific receptors on the epithelial cells of the hindgut and is taken up by endocytosis.
- the virus-containing vesicle then fuses with the basal plasmalemma of the epithelial cell, and the virus is released into the hemolymph of the aphid.
- AalT An example of such a toxin is AalT.
- This gene fusion results in an effective aphicidal transgene product because the protein is toxic at low levels in the hemolymph (Gershburg, E. et al. [1998] supra; Jarvis, D.L. [1996] supra). Equally important, this approach is unlikely to harm nontarget organisms because the toxin is active only in the insect, and the CP-RTD of luteoviruses is specific for aphids. The toxin is also harmless to mammals. Not only will this strategy provide resistance to damage caused directly by the aphid, but it will effectively provide resistance to numerous aphid-transmitted viruses.
- a variety of diseases caused both by luteo- and nonluteoviruses would be controlled by death of the aphid vector, Myzus persicae .
- the invention will have a significant impact both on control of aphids and on control of aphid-transmitted diseases.
- Aphids are among the most economically important pest insects of temperate agriculture. They cause yield losses by direct feeding, by the honey dew produced which encourages the growth of harmful sooty molds and, most importantly, by transmission of plant viruses (Harris, K.F. and Maramorosch, K., eds., [1977] Aphids as Virus Vectors. Academic Press, New York; Sylvester, E.S. [1989] in Aphids. Their biology, natural enemies and control. Minks et al. [eds.]), Amsterdam: Elsevier, vol C, pp 65-88). In Britain losses due to aphids themselves average $150 million/year (Tatchell, G.M. [1989], Crop Protection 8:25- 29).
- Biological control methods are limited to specific aphid-parasite interactions and are most effective on perennial crops.
- the use of genetic aphid resistance reduces the necessity for chemical control, but natural resistance genes are limited.
- a transgenic approach to aphid resistance allows rapid introduction of new kinds of genes into popular cultivars without the generations of back-crossing needed for introducing genes by conventional breeding.
- the same constructs can be used for engineering all crops susceptible to aphid attack, because luteoviruses are taken up into the hemocoel of both vector and nonvector aphid species.
- the invention provides a new weapon in the battery of strategies that are necessary to avoid loss of control through development of aphid resistance to current control measures.
- the DNA sequence and translated amino acid sequence of barley yellow dwarf virus coat protein and readthrough domain are given in Table 3 and in SEQ ID NO:l (nucleotide sequence) and SEQ ID NO: 2 (amino acid sequence).
- the coat protein has the sequence of the first 198 amino acids encoded. Immediately following the codon for amino acid 200 is a TAG (amber) stop codon followed, immediately by GTA, in the same reading frame, encoding a valine.
- the coat protein-readthrough fusion extends from amino acids 1-669.
- nucleotide numbers and corresponding encoded amino acid numbers are presented in pairs separated by a slash mark. For example, in the first line of Table 3, the numbers 31/11 designate nucleotide #31, a C directly under numeral 3, and amino acid #11, encoded by the codon beginning at nucleotide #31 (CGC).
- TCT GGC AAT ATA ATA CCA AAA CCC AAG GAA CCT GAA GTA CTT GGG ACA TAC CAA GGA CAG ser gly asn ile ile pro lys pro lys glu pro glu val leu gly thr tyr gin gly gin
- properties of the CP-RTD and the genes encoding them (i) the regions of the genes that are required for expression of CP and RTD; (ii) domains in the CP-RTD proteins that facilitate stability in the gut, import into the hemocoel, and stability in the hemolymph; (iii) whether whole virus particles contribute to survival in the aphid digestive system and import into the hemolymph, or whether the fusion proteins themselves are sufficient; and (iv) the effect of different fusions of CP-RTD to AalT on toxicity of AalT.
- Various approaches are available for expression and testing of the constructs.
- One is to express the BYDV- AalT fusions from replicating BYDV RNA in infected cells, followed by purification of the protein.
- the other is to express fusion proteins using the baculovirus expression system.
- the former approach has the advantage of serving as a rapid, high-level transient expression system in the plant cell which is the native environment in which the constructs are to be expressed as transgenes.
- the latter allows expression of the gene from DNA in the nucleus out of its viral context which is the case in transgenic plants, and it allows rapid purification of the protein product for direct assessment of its interaction with the aphid. Both approaches can be performed simultaneously.
- Fig. 3 is a diagram of genome organization of
- BYDV-PAV Bold lines indicate genomic (g) and subgenomic (sg) RNAs. ORFs are numbered as in Chay et al., (1996) Virol. 219:57-65.
- Coat protein (CP) and readthrough domain (RTD) are translated from sgRNAl . Portion of RTD required for aphid transmission (AT) is upstream of proteolytic cleavage site (scissors). Other functions: polymerase (POL) and systemic movement protein (MP).
- Fig. 4 shows examples of CP-RTD- AalT fusions to be tested.
- Scissors indicate approximate site of proteolytic cleavage of the RTD (Filichkin et al., [1994] Virol. 205:290-299; van den Heuvel et al., [1997] J. Virol. 71:7258-7265).
- Constructs were made with and without the AalT stop codon and with and without the CP stop codon (Fig. 4A, E).
- a construct corresponding to Fig. 4 A, having the CP stop codon with an AalT insert flanked by segments of the RTD was designated AaIT6, sequence given in SEQ ID NO:4.
- a second construct, having the CP stop codon but also containing the AalT stop codon, corresponding to Fig. 4E was designated AalTll, sequence given in SEQ ID NO:6.
- AalTll sequence given in SEQ ID NO:6.
- the constructs are fully replicated and translated as has been shown with pPAV6.
- Transcripts containing the much larger 1.8 kb GUS gene inserted in ORF 5 replicated efficiently in oat protoplasts, and the readthrough required for expression of the RTD-GUS fusion was efficient (Brown, CM. et al. [1996] supra).
- the proteolytic cleavage site in the RTD has been located at approximately amino acid 242 (Filichkin, S.A. [1994] supra; van den Heuvel, J.F.J.M. [1997] supra) which corresponds to base 4237 in ORF5 (Figs. 3,4).
- the cleavage site may is just downstream of the 3 ' end of the distal readthrough element (base 4219) (Brown CM. et al. [1996] supra).
- the relative efficacy of various constructs can be assessed, to optimize their activity under different conditions.
- the activity of AalT can be affected by fusion to viral proteins at its N and C termini as in the constructs in Fig. 4 A,C.
- the constructs that place the AalT ORF at the end of the mature RTD increase the likelihood that AalT will retain neurotoxicity, because AalT will have only an N-te ⁇ rrinal fusion.
- AalT stop codon For all locations in which AalT is inserted, we describe constructs with and without the AalT stop codon.
- the presence of the AalT stop codon can result in less RTD being expressed, particularly in constructs with the AalT ORF close to the CP stop codon (Fig. 4E).
- optimization of efficacy can involve a trade-off between viral and AalT functions.
- increasingly large deletions of the RTD and the CP ORFs can be tested.
- the results allow one to map both the RNA domains required for readthrough of the CP ORF stop codon, and the protein domains required for stability in the aphid and transport of CP-RTD across the hindgut epithelium.
- the above-described mapping can more precisely define the sequences that contribute to efficient readthrough, and also define other regions suitable for insertion of an insect-toxic peptide coding sequence.
- Oat protoplasts were transfected with ⁇ 15 ⁇ g of viral RNA transcript by electroporation using the BTX Electro Square Porator T820 (San Diego, CA) with a single, 6 millisecond pulse at 300 V. For each construct, 6 individual samples were transfected. Protoplasts were harvested 48 hr after electroporation by centrifugation at 600xg for 6 min.
- the supernatant was removed and the pellets resuspended in 400 ⁇ l of 10 mM sodium phosphate buffer, pH 7.0. This suspension was sonicated for 2-3 sec. The sonicated protoplasts were centrifuged at 18,000xg (microcentrifuge) at 4°C for 30 min. The supernatant was transferred to a new 1.5 ml tube and kept on ice at a cold room overnight or up to 48 hr. The supernatant was then microcentrifuged again at 18,000xg (4°C) for 30 min. This centrifugation step was repeated as necessary until the supernatant was sufficiently clean.
- the supernatant was transferred to a 3 ml ultracentrifuge mbe and the volume increased to 3 ml by addition of 10 mM sodium phosphate buffer, pH 7.0.
- the mbe was then centrifuged at 90,000 rpm at 4°C for 30 min (Beckman TL100 ultracentrifuge, rotor 66iB).
- the supernatant was discarded and the pellets resuspended in 80 ⁇ l of 10 mM sodium phosphate buffer, pH 7.0. This crude virus preparation was used for feeding aphids.
- the aphid Rhopalosiphum padi was cultured on oat plants (cultivar Clintland64).
- Containers for aphid feeding were made from 6 x 15 mm petri dishes with black, opaque surfaces. An 18 mm hole was made in the center of the lower petri plate. Each petri dish may hold up to 150 aphids.
- the partially purified virus extracts (above) were diluted 1:1 or 1:2 in 50% sucrose and fed to virus-free aphids by placing 80-100 ⁇ l of the dilution between two Parafilm membranes which were stretched across the hole in the lower petri plate.
- the plates were placed > 7 cm above a fluorescent light box covered with a yellow filter. After feeding at room temperature overnight ( ⁇ 16 hr), the numbers of surviving and dead aphids were counted. Natural mortality increased markedly with longer feeding periods.
- RNA was then blotted to nylon membrane, probed with 32 P-labeled, BYDV-specific antisense RNA as described previously (Koev, et al. 1999). Radioactive bands were detected with a Phosphorimager (Fig. 6B). Mobilities of genomic RNA (gRNA) and the three subgenomic RNAs (sgRNA) produced during virus infection are indicated. sgRNAl is the mRNA for the CP-RTD-AalT fusion protein. Subgenomic RNAs 3 and 4 are small sgRNAs transcribed from the 3' end of the viral genome.
- sgRNAl and gRNA from the AaIT6 and AalTll - infected cells are slightly larger (migrate more slowly) than those from PAV6-infected cells, owing to the insertion of the 210 nt AalT gene in the RTD, (Fig. 6B).
- Subgenomic RNA1 from AalT ⁇ and AalTll comigrates with highly abundant ribosomal RNA which partially obscures it in the northern blot hybridization. However, significant levels were still detected (Fig. 6A, lanes AaIT6 and IAIT11).
- the presence of AalT mRNA suggests that the AalT fusion protein was being expressed.
- the fact that these levels were slightly lower than wildtype indicates that aphid mortality was not simply proportional to the amount of virus replication, but was correlated with the presence of the AalT gene.
- AaIT6 has the RTD of the CP fused at both its amino- and carboxy termini (Fig. 4 A and SEQ ID NO: 4), whereas AalTll has its own stop codon (Fig. 4E and SEQ ID NO: 6).
- AalTll has only the aminoterminal fusion to RTD. Fusing additional amino acid sequences to proteins can cause mis-folding or folding such that the domain of interest is not exposed on the surface.
- aphids are fed on purified recombinant fusion proteins produced in a baculovirus expression system.
- the various CP-RTD-AalT fusions described above (Fig. 4) are expressed from DNA coding only for those ORFs (CP, RTD and AalT) rather than a full replicating BYDV genome. It is preferred to use Autographa calif ornica multicapsid nucleopolyhedrovirus (AcMNPV) and standard techniques (O'Reilly, D.R. et al. [1992] Baculovirus Expression Vectors: A Laboratory Manual. W.H. Freeman and Company, New York) that are known in the art.
- the fusion protein sequences are inserted into the Bgl II cloning site of pAcMPl (Hill-Perkins, M.S. et al. [1990] J. Gen. Virol. 71:971-976).
- Insect cells Spodoptera frugiperda; Sf21: (Vaughn, J.L. et al. [1977] In Vitro 13:213-217)
- Sf21 podoptera frugiperda
- In Vitro 13:213-217 are cotransfected with each recombinant transfer vector and linearized DNA of the virus AcUWl-PH that contains the lacZ gene (Weyer, U. et al. [1990] J. Gen. Virol. 71:1525-1534;Kitts, P. et al.
- the method used for purification of the recombinant fusion proteins from insect cell culmre depends on whether virus particles are produced in the cells. Luteovirus coat protein genes have been expressed previously in baculovirus systems resulting in formation of virus particles in the nuclei of infected insect cells (Tian, T. et al. [1995] Virology 213:204-212; Blanc, S. et al. [1993] Virology 197:283-292).
- virus particles are produced in AalT fusion constructs, they will be purified by modification of a purification technique that is used routinely for purification of BYDV: the baculovirus-infected cells are lysed by sonication and the BYDV particles purified by differential centrifugation followed by sucrose gradient centrifugation (Rasochova, L. et al. [1996] supra). Because the recombinant virus particles are empty, they settle higher in the gradient than normal virions. If particle assembly does not occur in the baculovirus expression system, one can purify the recombinant proteins using classical protein purification techniques .
- the techniques of polyHis fusion tagging and nickel column chromatography are well-known in the art.
- Recombinant proteins are detected in column fractions by ELISA or western blot, using an anti-AalT antiserum or anti-CP antisera.
- Rhopalosiphumpadi nymphs (30 per sample) are membrane-fed as previously described on one of the following: (i) virus extracts from protoplasts inoculated with AalT-expressing PAV6 transcripts described in IA above; (ii) purified fusion protein from the baculovirus- expression system (IB above); (iii) recombinant AalT alone; (iv) unmodified BYDV-PAV virions; (v) buffer alone.
- the feeding samples also contain sucrose as described above. This medium is layered between two stretched sheets of Parafilm in the standard aphid feed assay (Rasochova, L. [1996] supra). Aphids are fed overnight and monitored for mortality while feeding on the membrane.
- Bioassays are repeated with a second agriculturally important aphid species, Myzus persicae.
- This species is the major vector of several other economically important luteoviruses including potato leaf roll virus, beet western yellows virus, beet mild yellowing virus, and cucurbit aphid-borne yellows virus, as well as viruses in other groups such as soybean mosaic poty virus.
- B. Insecticidal efficacy of injected CP-RTD-AalT fusion proteins As a positive control, one can determine the activity of AalT fused to BYDV proteins by injecting fusion proteins into larvae of the blow fly Sarcophaga falculata. This indicator species is particularly sensitive to scorpion toxins and is useful for evaluation of scorpion venom potency (Zlotkin, E. et al. [1971] Biochimie 53: 1073-1078). Comparison of the amounts of fusion protein required to cause contraction of S. falculata larvae with the amounts of unfused, wildtype AalT required for contraction will indicate the relative toxicity of AalT fused to BYDV proteins.
- aphid toxicity To measure aphid toxicity, one preferably injects apterous (wingless) aphids (which are easier to inject because of the softer cuticle), rather than alate (winged) aphids.
- Drummond capillaries (20 ⁇ l) are pulled and broken with fine forceps to produce a point approximately 10 ⁇ m in diameter. Each pulled capillary is used for injection of a single aphid to avoid immune reactions to contaminating hemolymph proteins on the capillary.
- Aphids are immobilized on a microporous filter by suction through a capillary connected to an aspiration system. Injections are conducted using a microinjection apparatus and a dissecting microscope.
- the volume injected varies according to the applied pressure, which is standardized, and the internal pressure of each aphid, which is variable. Volumes of 10 to 20 nanoliters can be injected without detriment to the aphid (Gildow, F.E. et al. [1993] Phytopathology 83: 1293- 1302).
- hemolymph samples are collected from 5 aphids in each treatment group by removal of a leg from each aphid and collection of hemolymph in a microcapillary tube (Chay,
- Hemolymph samples from aphids within each group are pooled, and proteins examined by SDS PAGE followed by western blotting. Recombinant proteins are detected in the hemolymph by using antisera to AalT and/or CP. Hemolymph from aphids fed on AalT alone or on buffer alone and examined using the AalT antiserum provide negative controls for test treatments. Hemolymph from aphids fed on BYDV and examined with the CP antiserum provide a positive control for test treatments.
- the assays described in section 2 indicate: (i) the toxicity of AalT fused to BYDV structural proteins; (ii) which ingested fusion protein constructs are optimum for toxicity to aphids and which for reducing probing behavior; (iii) which fusion protein constructs have optimum efficiency for transport into the aphid hemocoel. This information indicates the best constructs suitable for use in production of transgenic plants.
- transgenic plant is one which has been genetically modified to contain and express heterologous DNA sequences, either as regulatory RNA molecules or as proteins.
- a transgenic plant is genetically modified to contain and express at least one heterologous DNA sequence operably linked to and under the regulatory control of transcriptional control sequences which function in plant cells or tissue or in whole plants.
- a transgenic plant also refers to progeny of the initial transgenic plant where those progeny contain and are capable of expressing the heterologous coding sequence under the regulatory control of the plant-expressible transcription control sequences described herein. Seeds containing transgenic embryos are encompassed within this definition.
- coding sequence is operably linked in the sense orientation to a suitable promoter and advantageously under the regulatory control of DNA sequences which quantitatively regulate transcription of a downstream sequence in plant cells or tissue or in planta, in the same orientation as the promoter, so that a sense (i.e. , functional for translational expression) mRNA is produced.
- a transcription termination signal for example, a polyadenlyation signal functional in a plant cell
- a selectable marker which can be expressed in a plant can be covalently linked to the inducible expression unit so that after this DNA molecule is introduced into a plant cell or tissue, its presence can be selected and plant cells or tissue not so transformed will be killed or prevented from growing.
- suitable plant- expressible promoters include the 35S or 19S promoters of Cauliflower Mosaic Virus, the Nos, ocs or mass promoters of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti plasmids, and others known to the art.
- tissue specific expression of the plant-expressible insect resistance coding sequence is desired, the skilled artisan will choose from a number of well-known sequences to mediate that form of gene expression.
- a useful promoter for expression in plant vascular tissue is obtained from sugarcane bacilliform badna virus.
- the promoter (ScBV3m) is active in both monocots and dicots (Olzsewski, N. [1997] Plant Mol. Biol.).
- the promoter sequence is given in Table
- nucleic acid sequences other than that of Table 3, will function as coding sequences synonymous with the exemplified CP-RTD coding sequence.
- Nucleic acid sequences are synonymous if the amino acid sequences encoded by those nucleic acid sequences are the same.
- the degeneracy of the genetic code is well known to the art; i.e., for many amino acids, there is more than one nucleotide triplet which serves as the codon for the amino acid; for expression in plant cells or tissue it is desired that codon usage reflect that of plant genes and that CpG dinucleotides be kept low in frequency in the coding sequence.
- amino acid substimtions can be made in protein sequences without affecting the function of the protein. Generally, conservative amino acid substimtions or substimtions of similar amino acids are tolerated without affecting protein function. Similar amino acids can be those that are similar in size and/or charge properties, for example, aspartate and glutamate and isoleucine and valine are both pairs of similar amino acids. Similarity between amino acid pairs has been assessed in the art in a number of ways. For example, Dayhoff et al. (1978) in Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure, Vol. 5, Suppl. 3, pp.
- a plant-expressible transcription and translation regulatory sequence can be operably linked to any promoter sequence functional in plants as understood by the skilled artisan; where a regulatory element is to be coupled to a promoter, generally a truncated (or minimal) promoter is used, for example, the truncated 35S promoter of Cauliflower Mosaic Virus, (CaMV). Truncated versions of other constitutive promoters can also be used to provide CAAT and TATA-homologous regions; such promoter sequences can be derived from those of A. tumefaciens T-DNA genes such as Nos, ocs and mas and plant virus genes such as the CaMV 19S gene. It will be understood that the goals of a skilled artisan will determine the choice of particular transcriptional (and translational) regulatory sequences.
- a minimal promoter contains the DNA sequence signals necessary for RNA polymerase binding and initiation of transcription.
- the promoter is identified by a TATA-homologous sequence motif about 20 to 50 bp upstream of the transcription start site and a CAAT-homologous sequence motif about 50 to 120 bp upstream of the transcription start site.
- TATA-homologous sequence motif about 20 to 50 bp upstream of the transcription start site
- CAAT-homologous sequence motif about 50 to 120 bp upstream of the transcription start site.
- transcription directed by a minimal promoter is low and does not respond either positively or negatively to environmental or developmental signals in plant tissue.
- An exemplary minimal promoter suitable for use in plants is the truncated CaMV 35S promoter, which contains the regions from -90 to +8 of the 35S gene.
- transcription regulatory sequences which upregulate the levels of gene expression be operably linked thereto.
- Such quantitative regulatory sequences are exemplified by transcription enhancing regulatory sequences such as enhancers.
- expression of the regulated construct can be induced, for example, by treating the transgenic plant or tissue with an inducer suitable for regulating expression of the plant-expressible insect resistance coding sequences of the present invention.
- the expression of the CP-RTD-toxin fusion coding sequence can also be regulated by tissue specific transcription regulatory sequences .
- tissue specific transcription regulatory sequences e.g., the sugarcane bacilliforrn badnavirus promoter (ScBV3m) Table 4, is useful for directing expression of a transgene in phloem tissues of both monocots and dicots.
- ScBV3m sugarcane bacilliforrn badnavirus promoter
- a transgenic plant can be produced by any means known to the art, including but not limited to Agrobacterium tumefaciens- ediaied DNA transfer, preferably with a disarmed T- DNA vector, electroporation, direct DNA transfer, and particle bombardment and subsequent selection and regeneration (see Davey et al. [1989] Plant Mol. Biol. 13:275; Walden and Schell [1990] Eur. J. Biochem. 192:563; Joersbo and Burnstedt [1991] Physiol. Plant. 81:256;
- Monocots which have been successfully transformed and regenerated include wheat, corn, rye, rice, oat, barley and asparagus.
- the plant tissue used in the transformation possess a high capacity to produce shoots.
- Aspen stem sections have good regeneration capacity.
- Poplars have been successfully transformed (Wilde et al. [1992] Plant Physiol. 98:114-120).
- A. tumefaciens-mediated DNA transfer into plant tissue, followed by selection and growth in vitro and subsequent regeneration of the transformed plant tissue to a plant is well known for a variety of plants.
- the insect resistance plant expression cassette further contains a marker allowing selection of the expression cassette in the plant cell, e.g., genes carrying resistance to an antibiotic such as kanamycin, hygromycin, gentamicin, or bleomycin.
- the marker allows for selection of successfully transformed plant cells growing in the medium containing certain antibiotics because they will carry the expression cassette with resistance gene to the antibiotic.
- fusion constructs can be optimized to achieve desired levels of transfer into the hemocoel and of toxin dose.
- promoter activity in transgenic plants can be varied using techniques and promoters known in the art, in order to achieve levels of expression optimal for the desired level of aphid control. Such modifications, optimizations and constructs are within the scope of the invention.
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